| NOLUCK | Words from someone coming back empty-handed |
| ANDYOU | Comment from someone coming back to continue a takedown |
| TAILENDER | Learned it differently from someone coming last (4-5) |
| GIVEALLONEHAS | Don't hold back - empty the tank! (4,3,3,3) |
| STRANGECASEOFDR | Unusual medicine chest of designer of gardens and park, holding back empty morn by 5Dn (7,4,2,2,6,3,2,4) |
| JEKYLLANDMRHYDE | Unusual medicine chest of designer of gardens and park, holding back empty morn by 5Dn (7,4,2,2,6,3,2,4) |
| SAMOAN | Coming from South Africa, complain about someone coming from Polynesia (6) |
| METROPOLITAN | Someone coming from Paris, say, to trampoline acrobatically (12) |
| ECZEMA | Rash move, returning empty-handed from European nation to America? |
| INANIS | Empty; homo ... ____, empty-handed, cashless, Plaut. Most. 571 |
| IRAISE | Words from someone who's sure-handed? |
| GETON | Words from someone patting the back of their motorcycle seat enticingly |
| PASSERBY | Someone coming near (6-2) |
| ENTRANT | Someone coming in to give hospital department verbal attack (7) |
| EYEOPENER | Someone coming round to a certain view? That's surprising |
| AUDITOR | I hear someone coming to check (7) |
| GIN | Become empty-handed? |
| LOSE | Go home empty-handed, say |
| AIRGUITARS | Instruments that leave you empty-handed? (3,7) |
| DRAWABLANK | Come up empty-handed (4,1,5) |
